What a week for cybersecurity nerds—they’ve had to deal with several red-alert situations, including one that affected over half the internet. (Never heard of PHP before in your life? You probably have now.) But buried…
Reddit may introduce some form of identity verification to tackle its growing bot problem, reports Engadget. According to CEO Steve Huffman, the company is evaluating several different solutions. One option is biometric methods such as…
A U.S. federal court has sentenced a Ukrainian man to five years in prison for his part in a long-running identity theft operation that helped overseas North Korean workers gain fraudulent employment at dozens of…
Identity theft can sound like something straight out of a Hollywood thriller. A mysterious hacker breaking into a bank account or a con artist slipping through airport security with nothing but a forged passport. But…
Security experts often describe identity as the “new perimeter” in the world of security: in the world of cloud services where network assets and apps can range far and wide, the biggest vulnerabilities are often…
A U.S. online gift card store has secured an online storage server that was publicly exposing hundreds of thousands of customer government-issued identity documents to the internet. A security researcher, who goes by the online…
Identity management is one of the most common fulcrums around which security breaches have pivoted in the last several years, and one of the main reasons it’s the gift that keeps on giving to malicious…
The danger of using an unprotected identity Venturing online can be a dangerous business. Bad actors want your personal data, and will go to almost any lengths to get hold of it for their own…
When people hear the term “identity management” in an enterprise context, they typically think of apps that help users authenticate who they are on a network in order to access certain services. In a security…
Silverfort, the Israeli/U.S. startup, takes an all-in view when it comes to identity security in an organization. When it comes to potential breaches, people, machines, clouds, legacy and new apps can all be targets, and…